Spanish Poet to Be Speaker For Norton Lecture Tuesday

Jorge Guillen, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry this year, will give the first of the Norton lecture series Tuesday evening. The Spanish poet will speak on "St. John of the Cross: the Ineffable Experience" in Longfellow Hall at 8:30 p.m.

The series, entitled "Language and Poetry," will also include lectures on the Spanish poets, Berceo and Gongora. Guillen will speak on "Berceo: Prosaic Language," Nov. 12, and on "Gongora: Poetic Language," Nov. 19.

A "first complete edition" of his "Cantico" was published in 1950, after previous editions of the poem had appeared in 1928, 1936, and 1945. After receiving his Licentiate in Letters from the University of Granada, the poet earned his Doctorate at the University of Madrid.